Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Updates. CM Lives.

Now, time for dinner!

Got an email from the provider last night saying that terms of service (TOS) complaints had reached a "threshold" and that the blog was being reviewed. One of the former mods had a good contact with a person from the provider and I'll try to make contact that way. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Will post updates as I learn more.

4:17 PM Orlando Time
Comments have been turned off.

5:09 PM Orlando Time
The blog will slowly come back online. It will likely be a mess for a couple of days. As expected, a series of TOS complaints came from bots, most of them from a university in the Pacific Northwest, which many of us probably suspected.

Sorry for the inconvenience. Comments will be on shortly.

5:26 PM Orlando Time
Also, you will need a Google account in order to comment from now on. May be temporary. I know some users have made use of the User Name option, but it leaves too much to chance.

A former mod did make contact with a Google person we've corresponded with in the past and everything is fine. There was no valid TOS problem. Just a shitpile of automatically created complaints that triggered some automatic processes.

BUT, the rep could not tell us why the page didn't just disappear altogether. It's been suggested we try one of the third party security logins for mods that will further protect mod's access to the page itself. It had nothing to do with our email, and of course in our current format there are no users listed on the blog, as all material is sent in direct to the RGM or the queue. A colossal fucking headache, but nothing that impacts the anonymity of our users.

5:46 PM Orlando Time
90% of the old posts are now online. Surely there will be some things to clean up. Thanks for your patience.

FAB! WHAT THE FUCK, MAN? I missed every bit of it. Who the hell is Champion's Elixir? That should be the new name of the blog. If you don't use it, I'm going to use it for something. It might be my new band name. I might put it on my golf bag.

I might just get a tattoo of it on my prodigious stomach.

Then watch how the world bends to my will.

You da man, Fab. You are the fabbiest of all the Fabs, the sunshine-making mofu that saves the day even when most of us are just golfing, sleeping, or watching the convention and counting the cowboy hats and automatic rifles.

Give yourself the night of, but fix this background first thing tomorrow.

What Was This?

College Misery was a dysfunctional group blog where professors got the chance to release some of the frustration that built up while tending to student snowflakes, helicopter parents, money mad Deans, envious colleagues, and churlish chairpeople.

Our parent site, Rate Your Students, started in 2005, and we continued that mission beginning in 2010. Ben at Academic Water Torture and Kimmie at The Apoplectic Mizery Maker both ran support blogs during periods when this blog had died.